Golfer Tom Watson once wrote,“Sometimes thinking too much can destroy your momentum.” And most investors and traders, in a reactionary mode, seem to prefer to adopt such a strategy. But, I vividly remember the positive and incessant price momentum in early 2000 and late 2007 that appeared impossible to divert until, all at once, an important change in price trend occurred, seemingly overnight. The market consequences were ugly.

"My personal experience is making drugs illegal simply inconveniences addicts, turns addicts into criminals, and exacerbates the problems...by legalizing drugs, you would be able to address the problem at its essence - a mental health problem"

"The primary reason for persistence of bearish pressures on gamma is excessive liquidity on the exchanges and transparency of the Fed.... In the environment of abundant information, everything becomes short term."

"Divisive comments like these demonstrate an unfortunate lack of respect for the NFL, our great game and all of our players, and a failure to understand the overwhelming force for good our clubs and players represent in our communities.”

"Adventures in depravity are nearly always confronted with the unpleasant reality that stopping the degeneracy is much more difficult than starting it. This realization, and the unsettling feeling that comes with it, usually surfaces just after passing the point of no return."

"The 2,000-km-range missile can carry the warhead 1,800km away," the Commander of Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps told reporters on Friday. "The specification of this missile is that it can carry several warheads instead of one to hit several targets."

In what may be the latest major escalation involving North Korea - and potentially the nation's 7th nuclear test - China's earthquake administration said it detected a magnitude 3.5 earthquake in North Korea, which it suspects "was caused by an explosion", raising fears that the rogue state has tested another nuclear bomb.

Russia's diplomatic and strategic victory in the Middle East was made clear this week as news broke of "secret" and unprecedented US-Russia face to face talks on Syria. The Russians reportedly issued a stern warning to the US military, saying that it will respond in force should the Syrian Army or Russian assets come under fire by US proxies.

For the first time since 2008, a team of Wall Street Journal journalists has been allowed to visit and document the North Korean capital city of Pyongyang just as tensions between the US and its longtime geopolitical foe are reaching a boiling point.

"These are all just casualties of Trump’s war with the 'deep state' (permanent military, intelligence, and diplomatic bureaucracies), whereby the vested power interests in the US are fighting to defeat the 'Make America Great Again' (MAGA) movement..."

"And we thought he was here to help us or offer some type of assistance... I thought he was kidding. 'You are kidding right? We just had a hurricane six hours ago.' 'No, I’m not kidding. I have to cite you for this.' I just laughed. OK, whatever; knock yourself out!"

Amid ongoing fallout from the negative media attention and student (and faculty) protests that rocked campus in 2015, the University of Missouri recently welcomed its smallest student body since 2008, with enrollment down about 33% from its peak in 2015.